Obelisk

An obelisk is a tall, narrow, four-sided, tapering monument which ends in a pyramidal top.

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Obelisk':

  • Aksum
  • Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
  • Arles
  • Blenheim Palace
  • Chavin The obelisk now is in a Lima museum
  • Istanbul
  • Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
  • Mérida
  • Naples Guglia dell'Immacolata
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine
  • Petra
  • Potsdam Obelisk in Sanssouci Park
  • Prague 3rd court of the castle
  • Regensburg Obelisk for Karl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis, 1806
  • Rome
  • Schönbrunn
  • Urbino
  • Vatican City In the middle of St Peter Square